Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-03


ike q man 70 dress in the pink of fash.
ION, and you dress like a cOstermonger;
ike him 20 live in palace, and you live
in . Tat-hole; l like him 10 be in the bes
society, and you are the Crony of thieves
and murderers; ike him TO becultured
and artistic, and literary, and you are
illiterate, aGd-yOU don't even know Wha
I'm talking about"
Al know this much, though" returned
Grady; "the worse am, the more you
fancy me; and you wouldn't take slI the
sWells in New York to-day for the blacE
OF my finger NALL"
She brought up her hands TO each side
OF her face, and gave a little laugh and
shuddered. 81 don't care" she
said; 81 an happy. Yes, I'd rather be
in this den with you than Empress OF
Russia in the Winter Palace, and IVe
known il ever since ! was little girl
mat I hsted refinement and good man
ners, and euvied the hogs in their sty
There is = brute beast IN me somewhere,
and 1t would never give me any peace
/ till l met you, ald yoG-I don't know
somehow you explained me to myself.
You are the WiCkedest man IN New York
at -eest I nope YOU are-aud am the
finest lady IN society; but we are SIike
Gnd we belong together, and ,ge are happy
nowhere else, are WEI"
"pd 20 - per5jtion for you,n said
Grady in . deep 2utterGl, expressing in
this simple way what It has taken poets
and romGGCers vast deal of language
snd ingenuity to convey. What is the
mode compared with the meaning?
"I'u tell you what l em!" said she
'.Did you ever see pond lily? They are
the whitest and most fragrant flowers in
the wOTld-just like me. and they grow
IL stggnant water, out of the tilthiest mud
Of the pond bottom. All the sweetness
and purity Of the lily Is really nothing but
nasty black mud, sud that's the way with
me-"
sand I'm the old bullfrog that squats
on the log, Croakin' at you," said
Grady, entering into the spirit OF the
parable. This delighted her.
"But you must be careful about one
thing" she remarked. "YOu must never
reform; on the contrary! You would as
lief rob and murder 3 man as look at him,
wouldn't vou?"
'It's not my line, you know" replied
Grady, consideringIy, "and I'm bit old
to be varyin' my habits But l don't say
I'd stop for the name of g thing, not if it
come handy, and no better way out Of it."
She only half listened to him, occupied
as she was with her own fantastic and
reckless thoughts. "And I'd rather see
you with your head OF than with q collar
on, jack" she continued. ~ want you
always TO look Ike the lowest people
what they call the dregs Of the popula-
TONS you are now. don't mind you
having brains; a wicked fool is rot much
better than g good one. Oh, Jack! have
tried so many kinds OF excitement, and
they ST came to nothing. If you were
to fail me | should have to take to muir
der and suiCide"
"Just you wait till get you snug to |
myself" replied he, "aId you'll find out |
il III fS!l you"
Mechanically, as It were, she shrank
from him; then, recollecIng herself, she |
stole her ssm around his neck again. 81 |
don't know what TO think about that,"
size said "Do you really expect to
mske half million cut OF this affair.""
THAT'S il there don't come no hitch"
81 know, and then yoG viii have mil
ion altogether, But if came to you
link what for, Jack, you and 1 clipping
Ogether. imagine the things about it in
he papers. now could we manage? It's
'ery nice 10 have a million; but il we
i've together I don't see how you could
i've as you are doing now. And yet what
NEST want is Ghat there should be no
barge IL your ways. You see, I'm
sdy, and you're q rufffAn; and it is the
contrast that is the charm; but if we
ONE together, either I'd have 20 be like
GU, or you'd hSve 10 be like me. That
8, wear 9 collar and pretend you were a
enJeman; end either way the contrast !
would be gone.h
you're q little idiot, that's what you /
ret" was Johns comment upon this {
elicate cssuistrY. "We'll stay what we (
re fast enough. never fear, and there'u
e difference enough betwiXt US, too, c
you keep the nesh on you that you've 5
OF row" {
"JSCk, jack, you're not half as much OF f
devil - | am.n she whispered suddenly I
/ his csr. She brought her hands TO- I
ether under his chin, and with f. quick 1
SertiOn OF nervous strength buried her /
ender fingers in his throat. Grady I
asped and ehoked, bat, beyond q spss- /
lodiC movement Of The hands, ne made Y
OF the slightest attempt TO Tree himself Z
= TO resist. After fen seconds she re- =
NeG n5F grasp, OSAV over MIN, ana D
ughed in his flushed face. @
81 would like 10 straugle you once in t
While, il l could be sure If bringing you v
life sgaiD," she said. "Murder is Just h
lother way Of loving Which do you j:
Is best?" As she spoke she stopped
Id kissed him again, with q touch ss L
sht as butterfy's wing; but Grady, 8
DO had not minded the strangling, now fl
mped to his feet with sort of snarl, 4
&c q wild beast shifting fresh meat. She G
'ew hereelf together on the sofa and "
oked hXedly up at him, holding his b
es WITH her own. II she had wavered q
fsltered by c hairs breadth, al would II
we been over; he knew this rs well as s.
e did. But her glance was as steady q
Id unyielding as q steel spear. Grady s.